Mrs. Mueller - ENG 102 - The Kite Runner - Spring 2024: Start Here - Literary Analysis

What is literary criticism (analysis)?

• An interpretation of a literary work or body of work that is debatable.

• A conversation with the written text.
• An analysis and explication of literary work(s) using literary concepts (theories, devices, etc.)
• A thesis that presents and arguable perspective of a literary work.

Prompt your thinking critically about literature:

Agree or disagree with how:

• an author explains an idea
• ​an author defines an idea through the actions of a character
• an author feels about an issue or idea
• an author establishes the tone of a scene
• the importance the author places on a character, character trait, character’s actions/decisions, event or idea
• the accuracy of an author’s portrayal of a person, place or thing
• the authentic quality of an author’s portrayal of a person, place, time or idea
• the success or failure of an author’s image to evoke an emotion or other response from the reader
• the effectiveness of the author’s ability to evoke a specific response in the reader
• similarities between the manner one author evokes a response and how another author in another text evokes that same response
• similarities between the manner one author defines or develops an idea and how another author in another text develops or defines that idea

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